Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation LPE vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user can trigger to obtain root access and gain complete control of a target environment. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8933 CVSS score: 7.8,...

New Ubuntu Desktop Vulnerability Turns Local Access Into Root Control

A vulnerability in snap-confine lets an unprivileged user gain root access on affected Ubuntu Desktop systems. Install the latest snapd update to fix the issue...

CVE-2026-8933

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

USN-8579-1: snapd vulnerabilities

James Henstridge discovered that snapd's default apparmor template did not restrict access to systemd-userdbd varlink interface. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. CVE-2024-5300 Qualys discovered that snap-confine can be tricked to create...

USN-8579-1 snapd vulnerabilities

James Henstridge discovered that snapd's default apparmor template did not restrict access to systemd-userdbd varlink interface. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. CVE-2024-5300 Qualys discovered that snap-confine can be tricked to create...

CVE-2026-8933 snap-confine Local Privilege Escalation via Capabilities Misconfiguration or Flaw in Execution Environment Setup

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

EUVD-2026-46262

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

CVE-2026-8933

A local privilege escalation affecting snap-confine (used by Canonical snapd) configured with set-capabilities. The flaw lies in how privilege boundaries/security sandboxes are initialized when running under limited ambient capabilities, allowing an unprivileged local user to bypass restrictions ...

CVE-2026-8933

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

CVE-2026-15226 snapd snap-confine Sandbox Confinement Bypass via Omission of setuid Restriction in Seccomp Templates

A sandbox confinement bypass vulnerability exists in Canonical snapd within its internal execution environment compiler snap-confine. The default seccomp security templates generated by the engine to restrict system calls do not filter or reject process operations capable of creating or...

CVE-2026-15226

Canonically reported vulnerability CVE-2026-15226 affects Canonical snapd’s sandboxed environment (snap-confine). The issue: default seccomp templates did not filter or reject operations to create/manipulate file execution flags with set-user-id attributes, allowing a strictly confined snap to co...

CVE-2024-5300

On Ubuntu, if the systemd-userdbd package is installed, then a strictly confined snap is able to access hashed user passwords via its varlink interface...

CVE-2026-8933

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-5300

On Ubuntu, if the systemd-userdbd package is installed, then a strictly confined snap is able to access hashed user passwords via its varlink interface...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-8933

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in snap-confine, a set-capabilities core component used internally by Canonical snapd to construct the secure execution environment for snap applications. This vulnerability uniquely affects versions of snap-confine configured with set-capabilitie...

PT-2026-61956

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions snap-confine affected versions not specified Description A local privilege escalation issue exists in snap-confine, a core component used by Canonical snapd to create secure execution environments for snap applications. The flaw occurs in...

CVE-2026-15105

A flaw has been found in davenardella snap7 up to 1.4.3. This affects the function TS7Worker::PerformFunctionRead of the file src/core/s7server.cpp of the component ReadVar Request Handler. This manipulation causes deserialization. The attack requires access to the local network. The exploit has...

PT-2026-56618

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions davenardella snap7 versions prior to 1.4.4 Description A flaw in the ReadVar Request Handler component allows for deserialization. The issue resides in the TS7Worker::PerformFunctionRead function within the src/core/s7 server.cpp file...

MAL-2026-6943 Malicious code in tx-guard-snap (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector fce7ebfc771355b732949df26e92e2ec8a80c0de7cda46bcb865687c33d572ff tx-guard-snap advertises itself as a real-time transaction security analysis MetaMask Snap but performs no analysis. Its onTransaction handler...

Malicious code in tx-guard-snap (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector fce7ebfc771355b732949df26e92e2ec8a80c0de7cda46bcb865687c33d572ff tx-guard-snap advertises itself as a real-time transaction security analysis MetaMask Snap but performs no analysis. Its onTransaction handler...